[mindwrench]

I experience something that as far as I can tell is a negative effect of psychosis, but maybe it is something else that others have identified more accurately.

I have short periods at random times where I cannot do things. The most recent instance of it I intended to find my water glass and put ice and water in it, as I had just returned from driving across town to pick up dinner. I walked to the sink, and began thumbing through the silverware in the dish drainer. I knew I wanted to put ice and water in my glass, I attempted to go find it but went to the microwave and set the timer to cook a corn dog, but there was nothing in there, and dinner was already on the table. I spotted my glass and took it to the kitchen and threw it in the trash, and returned to the silverware in the dish drainer to thumb through them again. There was no need for silverware for dinner, and I knew that. I sometimes even step in different directions than I want to go when it happens. I returned to the microwave looking for my glass. I knew I wasn't going to be able to accomplish anything and I sat down on the floor by the microwave. When I was asked what I was doing and if I was going to eat my dinner I got up and sat at the table and began eating dinner, and selected a series on netflix to watch while eating dinner. After dinner I retrieved my glass from the trash and washed it and put ice and water in it.

This temporary loss of cognitive ability comes at random times, and I don't think it has ever lasted very long, but I'm not sure. I know not to try talking to someone when I'm like that, as if I can talk at all it comes out wrong and selecting words mimics the physical process of doing the wrong things to accomplish a task. Is this what they call word salad?

Does anyone else experience this? What DX do you have and has the behavior been identified by your T's.

[Skeezyks]

Hello mindwrench: I don't know anything about this. But I wondered if you are familiar with PC's sister website: "NeuroTalk"? There are a lot of very medically knowledgeable members over there. Someone may have some suggestions as to what this is about, particularly if it happens to have a neurological basis rather than psychological... just a thought...